the devs are working very hard right now and this would be a huge expense of dev time and resources

almost as popular as soon-tm

though like nooska said, they did that with golden lotusand to a certain extent they did it with klaxxi and tillers as wellklaxxi - more quests you finish in the zone = more paragons unlocked = more dailies with 3 more paragons coming at various rep levels tillers - more rep = more farm plots = more rep daily from just farming

hell even cloud serpents changed dailies once you hit revered

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Koatanga wrote:I don't equate extending time played with extending the playability of the content. Not when the daily grind is just the same few quests over and over ad nauseum. I am less likely to explore my alts, and less likely to complete the zone quests, because my available play time is taken up with repetitive grinding of reputation on my main.

I do think the Devs have some ideas of how much play time should be involved in things - if it is realistic is another question, as is if the mechanism to achieve that playtime makes for a good game (and then: good for who?).

I certainly don't think dailies make for compelling gameplay as they are implemented currently at level 90. Maybe the Tillers and OOCS ones, because you actually get to see *something* change, and get immediate 'tangible' results when you earn something. The others are pretty much set up to be you going into the meat grinder for another day.

Koatanga wrote:A more compelling execution of dailies would have been to have the dailies actually progress you through an area. Most areas have a number of quests that lead you through exploring the area. Imagine if you joined the pandaren taking back an entire area from the evil whatevers, but you were slowed by being part of the advancing army. After X number of quests, the expedition leader would say "that's all for today; let's camp here" and you can quest no further that day. And imagine part of those quests were repetitive - gathering food or water for the troops, helping to repair the infrastructure of the area - such that you had maybe 3 new quests that advanced the expedition along with your busy work of keeping the expedition moving.

This is probably one place where I thought some of the Molten Front ideas would have worked better, and I like this line of thought. And as you say, it would actually seem like you are *doing* something. But I think the danger there is making the world seem populated: you'd probably need areas phased, and the phasing could make people 'move on', possibly never to return. So unless CRZs could account for that, you'd have early areas empty. Currently, since all of the dailies (like molten front) go through the same basic steps, you can ensure people will go to an area.

Vale of Eternal Blossoms is pretty much the same structure as the Molten Front - in MF, when you earned a certain number of tokens you unlocked some new quests which opened up a new part of the zone to do dailies in. In VoEB, when you reach different rep levels you get the quests to unlock a new area. The main difference is that areas you hadn't unlocked in the Molten Front were phased to be empty or inaccesible, whereas in VoEB the areas are all there and visible, you just can't get the quests yet.

I think the balance is off as far as number of quests and rep per quest. Golden Lotus has more quests for low reward per quest, compared to older rep grinds - it takes longer to get through it all, but the overall reward isn't any larger.

The Tillers is probably the most rewarding of the rep grinds this time (I haven't done Anglers, so can't say there). Lower time investment for the dailies, lots of optional ways to add in. But of course, it has the least immediate/significant (and most optional) rewards.

KysenMurrin wrote:Vale of Eternal Blossoms is pretty much the same structure as the Molten Front - in MF, when you earned a certain number of tokens you unlocked some new quests which opened up a new part of the zone to do dailies in. In VoEB, when you reach different rep levels you get the quests to unlock a new area. The main difference is that areas you hadn't unlocked in the Molten Front were phased to be empty or inaccesible, whereas in VoEB the areas are all there and visible, you just can't get the quests yet.

I think the balance is off as far as number of quests and rep per quest. Golden Lotus has more quests for low reward per quest, compared to older rep grinds - it takes longer to get through it all, but the overall reward isn't any larger.

The Tillers is probably the most rewarding of the rep grinds this time (I haven't done Anglers, so can't say there). Lower time investment for the dailies, lots of optional ways to add in. But of course, it has the least immediate/significant (and most optional) rewards.

IIRC, In molten front you had the whole prepare->establish->push phasing I thought where the most evident change was not just the number of dailies and their location but also the state of the tree and the sanctuary hub in MF. That's kind of what I'm getting at. If I'm not mistaken, all of the dailies currently happen in areas that do not change - you just don't get any quests there until you've unlocked em. But with OOCS and Tillers you get some visible progression (your serpent and your farm, respectively), which is why I mentioned them. And we certainly see a lot of progression and phasing in the leveling experience... so I don't think it's by accident or technical limitation that things are set up the way they are.

all i would want is something like the amber things for klaxxi, eggs for OotCS, and harvesting for tillersi guess the caches count as that for golden lotus, but they give basically nothing for rep(150 i think), where as harvesting is 100/200/300 per day depending on rep level, and eggs are 500(i dont know what the klaxxi turn in is, i havent finished one)

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It really comes down to balance. The Klaxxi work well up to Revered because you do the storylines, do a couple of days of dailies and then you get new story tidbits with the new Paragons. That's fine.

After that, you get into "grindy" as far as Exalted goes, but fewer people have that as a goal.

With GL, you have a one-two quest intro, leading into dailies that give very small returns, which makes the "repetition" or "grind" more noticeable. If they also had a more involved questline at Friendly, followed by a more significant questline at Honored that got you maybe 10 or so quests around the place, then it would feel more involving.

Another aspect is also HOW the story/daily lines is done. With the Klaxxi, as you're unlocking Paragons, you view different personalities and stuff like that, which helps, you feed the Kunchong, it grows, you use it on a rampage, Wind Reaver guy lets you go up and powerbomb down, etc. With GL, not so much. The couple of quests that involve the personal evil guy in the Halls is about it, aside from that it's a bunch of mobs like any other mob.

I think that's a bit of a reflection on the act that the Mogu themselves don't really come across very well; it would have been a great opportunity for a storyline that involved treachery, dark magics and excessive cruelty as is their nature (think Mogu capturing a bunch of people in battle, beheading them in front of your very eyes, putting thier heads on spikes as you're powerless to stop it, using dark magics on their corpses type affair). Instead, the Mogu are like this IDEA of a cruel, overlordy race that you don't really experience, you just get fed bits of info on how bad they are while they do nothing special, so they just feel like overdramatised and incompetent remodeled Draenei.

Darielle wrote:I think that's a bit of a reflection on the act that the Mogu themselves don't really come across very well; it would have been a great opportunity for a storyline that involved treachery, dark magics and excessive cruelty as is their nature (think Mogu capturing a bunch of people in battle, beheading them in front of your very eyes, putting thier heads on spikes as you're powerless to stop it, using dark magics on their corpses type affair). Instead, the Mogu are like this IDEA of a cruel, overlordy race that you don't really experience, you just get fed bits of info on how bad they are while they do nothing special, so they just feel like overdramatised and incompetent remodeled Draenei.

The following may be better in a different thread, but I agree.

After doing the lorewalkers stuff, this really is a big point and not just for the Mogu. I had this chat with a guildie: what the Lorewalkers tell you and what the quests represent are pretty stark contrasts for some of the races. Some of the 'mob' races: the Yongol, the saurok and the hozen you don't really get to see much other than what is presented in the Lorewalkers but they seem to line up pretty well. The Mogu are built up to be these uber baddies, but they seem just incompetent buffoons who managed to get to power somehow. I'm pretty certain if they had mustaches they'd twirl them. I feel like the Pandaren fall flat at 90 when you are doing what seem like more minor tasks than the stuff you'd done while leveling too: the Shado Pan (Uber protectors of Pandaria) apparently can't reclaim minor footholds even with the assistance of the very heroes who killed Deathwing, The Lich King and assorted other baddies. The Golden Lotus seem to be in a similar issue in the Vale.

Maybe it's me, but I felt that most of the dailies at level 90 seemed less 'epic' than most of the stuff I did while leveling. Saving villages, establishing alliance footholds, winning hearts and minds and what not certainly was more enjoyable than 'slowing' the march of the mogu/mantid by offering up some minor inconveniences that provide no discernible change.

Needless to say I feel like the grind comes less from the action of doing quests on a daily basis and more from what seems like a development choice of making the results of your actions essentially invisible (and quest series nearly identical) for the sake of gameplay.

WARNING - inc wall o' textand i agree with brekkie, this belongs in the lore thread, but w/e

well we are pretty big badassesi mean we took down the leader of the scourge - at the height of his power AND in his throne room, where he is the most powerful! we have ended not just 1, but TWO dragon aspects (ok ok , we ended one, we assisted thrall with the other) we have taken down the brood mother of the black dragon flight 3 times now? and her brother twicewe have taken down 2 elemental lords (MC ragnaros was merely summoned to our realm, we sent him back, it was in firelands that we killed him finally) hmm lets see....we took down 2? Eradar lords of the burning legion ...no 3, archimode, KJ, and Jarraxis, granted 2 were leaders of the Eradar, and Jarraxis was an officer in the army but still, they are powerful demons.

we have raided the scourge's flying citidel Naxxramas TWICEwe have ended Illidan, Kael'thas, and Lady Vash'j during their reign of power

these are all pretty big baddiesnot to mention 3 old gods have been killedone by the titans, which in turn created the sha, and 2 by USall we need now is an old god on EK and we have all the current continents covered! (crap, i just spoiled Garrosh's corruption, it happens while in UC calling Sylvanis a bitch again) - btw i will be laughing my ass off if this happens

so all in all, we are pretty bad asswe are the heroes of legendi mean you figure most of the normal populous is a farmer, trader, blacksmith, etcnot everyone is a super powerful being like the player character isin the lore, the player characters are rare and really REALLY powerful

maybe this says something about how powerful the sha truly are?they need a group of some of the most powerful beings on the planet to take them down, mere fighters like the shado-pan monks arent enoughthey can hold the sha back, but cannot defeat it or even advance on it until we have a concentrated strike

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He one-shotted one of the most powerful demonologists the Alliance had to offer, and then proceeded to get his ass kicked by us. That alone shows how powerful our characters actually are when compared to even the best NPCs.

He one-shotted one of the most powerful demonologists the Alliance had to offer, and then proceeded to get his ass kicked by us. That alone shows how powerful our characters actually are when compared to even the best NPCs.

Let's be fair, in all these cases it's suspension that causes game mechanics to overdo "lore". "Lore" may have dictated an epic battle, but given that they can't erally do that in the middle of a raid, they had to play the "But I'm in charge .... hrrrgk".

Kinda like how the Lich King shows up and all the Lore figures sit there sipping their tea.

In the wider context of lore, our characters aren't all THAT powerful. In every single major figure, while for game purposes, we did the grunt work, in lore purposes, we were either helping or being helped by other figures. Illidan involved Akama and Maiev. KJ involved Kalec and Anveena. Archimonde involved Tyrande and the Wisps. Lich King had LolTirion. Malygos had the Red Dragonflight. Rag had DROOD POWER. etc. We're not run of the mill, but character power level is being a bit overstated. Some things we did ourselves, but even that's game implement logic.

they need a group of some of the most powerful beings on the planet to take them down, mere fighters like the shado-pan monks arent enoughthey can hold the sha back, but cannot defeat it or even advance on it until we have a concentrated strike

According to Lore, the Sha were under control until we messed it up. All we're really doing is doing exactly what the Shado-Pan already did before we superfed the Sha.

they need a group of some of the most powerful beings on the planet to take them down, mere fighters like the shado-pan monks arent enoughthey can hold the sha back, but cannot defeat it or even advance on it until we have a concentrated strike

According to Lore, the Sha were under control until we messed it up. All we're really doing is doing exactly what the Shado-Pan already did before we superfed the Sha.

I don't buy that. It's not our fault the mantid race is corrupted, and there were many problems running amok long before we showed up. Garrosh's rage may make things worse before we put him down to make everything better, but it wasn't all roses before we showed up.

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Only real example I can think of it being our fault is when we caused the destruction of the statue at Jade Temple. Now, I'll be the first to admit I don't follow the lore extremely closely, but everywhere else it just looked like we were helping clean up messes already in progress to gain favor with the factions there.

Excepting maybe the Vale, since we convinced them to reopen it, which allowed the Mogu back in (though a gate is hardly an obstruction for the Mantids, unless the closed gate represented some magical seal that was broken on the entire zone.)

Sagara wrote:Sounds logical to try and promoe cross-activity. More content, so longer play time before we get bored... Now did they over-do it? I'd be inclined to agree - 4 reps is way too much when you have the opportunity to do all 4.

Maybe some sort of weekly cap for rep gains would be appropriate. Or simply a weekly daily quest cap.

Why cap it? If some people have the time and will to do dailies every day let them do. You don't have time to do all? Pick one and start there, with time you'll do them all, if you want.

Sagara wrote:Sounds logical to try and promoe cross-activity. More content, so longer play time before we get bored... Now did they over-do it? I'd be inclined to agree - 4 reps is way too much when you have the opportunity to do all 4.

Maybe some sort of weekly cap for rep gains would be appropriate. Or simply a weekly daily quest cap.

Why cap it? If some people have the time and will to do dailies every day let them do. You don't have time to do all? Pick one and start there, with time you'll do them all, if you want.

Let me amend that - when the opportuniy is there and a potential use exists, people will do it as if they were forced.What we need is a cap on the rewards you can get, like the 150 first dailies of a given week grant rep, valor and baubles. The rest just grants gold, and why not Justice (even though that's pretty useless...).

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Sagara wrote:Sounds logical to try and promoe cross-activity. More content, so longer play time before we get bored... Now did they over-do it? I'd be inclined to agree - 4 reps is way too much when you have the opportunity to do all 4.

Maybe some sort of weekly cap for rep gains would be appropriate. Or simply a weekly daily quest cap.

Why cap it? If some people have the time and will to do dailies every day let them do. You don't have time to do all? Pick one and start there, with time you'll do them all, if you want.

Let me amend that - when the opportuniy is there and a potential use exists, people will do it as if they were forced.What we need is a cap on the rewards you can get, like the 150 first dailies of a given week grant rep, valor and baubles. The rest just grants gold, and why not Justice (even though that's pretty useless...).

There is already a cap of sorts, the number of total dailies you can do in a week with a given faction. The point of the cap would be benrficial if a secondary method of earning rep existed. Just to keep dailies more attractive.

I think that an elegant solution to this would be that you have two separate gear progression paths.

Either: (i) you can buy VP gear that weekor(ii) you can get loot from bosses in normal or heroic modes

Both (i) and (ii) should be able to get lower ilevel loot from LFR, as now.

That way, there's progression for solo players under (i), knowing that it will take many months to get epics on a par with even normal mode.

Players who would usually choose (ii) could swap out for a week to pick up gear to fill a gap that never dropped, but would loose looting rights from 16 or so bosses. Likely to be much less attractive, and would separate the gear progression paths.

Clearly, some of the practicalities of making a system like this work would require extensive development, but in theory, wouldn't it make all of the player base happy?

Sagara wrote:Sounds logical to try and promoe cross-activity. More content, so longer play time before we get bored... Now did they over-do it? I'd be inclined to agree - 4 reps is way too much when you have the opportunity to do all 4.

Maybe some sort of weekly cap for rep gains would be appropriate. Or simply a weekly daily quest cap.

Why cap it? If some people have the time and will to do dailies every day let them do. You don't have time to do all? Pick one and start there, with time you'll do them all, if you want.

Let me amend that - when the opportuniy is there and a potential use exists, people will do it as if they were forced.What we need is a cap on the rewards you can get, like the 150 first dailies of a given week grant rep, valor and baubles. The rest just grants gold, and why not Justice (even though that's pretty useless...).

Why? If people are willing to go the distance, let them...

There are only two reasons why you would want to place a cap is because you feel compelled and can't stop. You feel like you have to do it and can't stop. I don't see any other reason for imposing an unnecessary cap, as currently you have already a system in place and is called will, it works that whenever you've had enough, you stop.

Well, another comes to mind, you might actually stop and simply being annoyed at other who have more time, and I don't see this either as a good excuse for placing a cap.

degre wrote:I don't see any other reason for imposing an unnecessary cap, as currently you have already a system in place and is called will, it works that whenever you've had enough, you stop.

Peer pressure is an important factor, as well. If you're not doing everything you can to improve your character, you're the lazy weakest link that is letting the other 9/24 people in your raid team down. And in the absence of artificial caps, you will never be doing enough.

I think you're mostly right. But then again, this is precisely the reason we went from a "valor for first dungeons each day" to "valor for the first seven dungeons each week" to "fck this, you always get valor, only more for the first each day" (and people are STILL complaining).

This is simply following the current trend: you can reach most meaningful rewards without pushing too hard, but, if you happen to really push some content or other, you get extra fun/cosmetic thingies.

Right now, PVE-side, it works for dungeons (achieve, less valor), challenge modes (less valor, mount, title, transmog), LFR (more chances at coin loot, less valor). The only two places where it doesn't work yet are dailies and raiding.

As an aside, to make it happen in raiding, one should be able to re-try downed bosses of a specific week for some reason (not loot-related) like trying an achievement, training, or a little bit extra valor.

Daily-side, there is no limit to how far you can push, and the reward remains linear - always valor, rep and baubles. The only "true" limit, is the amount of dailies available in a single day. That's around 50 AFAIK. Per day. Eeeeeevery day.

That's mostly what I find odd - the pressure to do as many dailies as possible is much higher than, say, doing a second LFR, or an umptenth dungeon. Lines were drawn for pretty much every type of content. The absence of one for dailies is a very weird situation, the consequences of which can be read troughout this topic.

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Sagara wrote:That's mostly what I find odd - the pressure to do as many dailies as possible is much higher than, say, doing a second LFR, or an umptenth dungeon. Lines were drawn for pretty much every type of content. The absence of one for dailies is a very weird situation, the consequences of which can be read troughout this topic.

Passionario wrote:

degre wrote:I don't see any other reason for imposing an unnecessary cap, as currently you have already a system in place and is called will, it works that whenever you've had enough, you stop.

Peer pressure is an important factor, as well. If you're not doing everything you can to improve your character, you're the lazy weakest link that is letting the other 9/24 people in your raid team down. And in the absence of artificial caps, you will never be doing enough.

This.

Because if your dps is sub-RL-expectations-because-the-boss-didn't-die, then the obvious solution is that you need to be exalted with all the factions, because that naturally makes your dps better. Also if the boss doesn't die it's your fault because you spent time on alts (even if the RL has some of his own).

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Because if your dps is sub-RL-expectations-because-the-boss-didn't-die, then the obvious solution is that you need to be exalted with all the factions, because that naturally makes your dps better. Also if the boss doesn't die it's your fault because you spent time on alts (even if the RL has some of his own).

actually yes, if there is gear from those factions you have not unlocked yet which is an upgrade which MAY up your dps through pure stats

gear is the easiest way to try and up dpsmore gear = more AP/SP = hard hitting abilitiesonce gear is out of the way, you can cross that off the list and work on rotations and such

but then again if you are just out to be a leech, of course you dont give a shit about that

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